Tchavolo Schmitt The deserving heir of Django     "Gipsy Réunion"... "Miri Familia"... "Alors ? Voilà !"... "Swing" (BOF) "Mémoires"... "Loutcha"... " Player of guitar, brown, man with a moustache, thief of hens, the gypsy haunts us as a very ancient legend " wrote F.Coupry (The Gypsies, Milan, on 1999). This legend, which always runs around Django to Tony Gatlif's films and Kusturica, lived its dark hours with the persons and the genocide organized by Europe between 41 and 45... Past time? 52 Roms avoiding the racist attacks in Hungary, took refuge with France certain July and asked for the political asylum. They are in Strasbourg and wait for an answer. Strasbourg... Earth of reception of the another gipsy, him too alive legend of the waltzes gypsies, than the modesty and the authenticity divided up in the pubs of Fleas and 'bars of the small morning' : Tchavolo Schmitt. The vein of ropes nomads seems certainly inexhaustible. A music to and against tou what, for centuries, tries to admit her to the folklore or the oubliettes. A swing of madness (Haïde Tchavolo), a phenomenal power which twists the guitar gipsy where from spring and slam bloody notes, an envy stimulated by Ionica, a rarely contained ardour (Lyola), such are the ingredients of this very big disc which knew how to highlight the spirit and the improvisations of a monument of the guitar. Listening " Duet of the Amur ": everything is there. Infernal tempo, sublime escapees, freed(released) enjoyment. This " Alors? Voilà! " A reference is. You vaguely heard about Django? You are not an addict in the guitar? But you will not resist to the mixed standards (I shall wait) nor in the eruption of a devilish swing ? Tchavolo, Tchavolo, Tchavolo ! Tchavolo Schmitt joins in the purest tradition of Django Rheinhardt, of which it is deserving heir... He crystallizes all that the music represents for the Gipsies: the simplicity of the person becomes allied to its modesty, its humility; his exceptional virtuosity is reflected in the enjoyment which he expresses when he plays surrounded with his. Tchavolo Schmitt was born in Paris in 1954, he joins his family in Strasbourg in 1965. There, he begins to play in cafes and clubs of the region and also, obviously, within the community gipsy. He invents his own style where every note carries an emotion: the pain of the arrachement, the desolation and the sweetness of the reassurance. It is Tony Gatlif's last film " Swing " Which makes him famous in the general public. His orchestra is established by another big virtuoso of the guitar gipsy, inhabitant of Strasbourg as him, Mandino Reinhardt but also of three of the best rhythmic guitarists Hono Winterstein, Sony Reinhardt, Sucker Berbedes. The bass is held by a young so comfortable, Alsatian musician in the traditional musics that in the cutting edge improvisation, Gautier Laurent. Afters Gadjo Dilo and Latcho Drom...   "SWING" prochainement sur CANAL+ le jeudi 28.8 à 22h47 le vendredi 29.8 à 22h01 le dimanche 31.8 à 0h45 After "Latcho Drom" and "Gadjo Dilo", Tony Gatlif dives again into the world of the Gypsies by making discover to a kid a community of sédentarisés Gipsies in the region of Strasbourg. On the tracks of his young hero, he describes at the same moment the rising sentimental emotions of a teenager and his love of the music gypsy. Numerous stars, such Tchavolo Schmitt, Mandino Reinhardt or Abdellatif Chaarani, agreed to participate in this sensitive film, beside not professional actors... www.lespommesdemadouche.com